CHOROID PLEXUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A vascular plexus of the cerebral ventricles that regulate intraventricular pressure

Synonyms:

choroid plexus; plexus choroideus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("choroid plexus" is a kind of...):

plexus; rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)

Meronyms (parts of "choroid plexus"):

arteria choroidea; choroidal artery (an artery that supplies the choroid plexus)

A malignant neoplasm arising from the choroid plexus.

(Choroid Plexus Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

The more common ectodermal components present in a mature teratoma include skin, brain and choroid plexus.

(Central Nervous System Mature Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

A malignant neoplasm arising from the choroid plexus of the brain.

(Choroid Plexus Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Differential diagnoses include choroid plexus papilloma, papillary meningioma and metastatic papillary carcinomas.

(Papillary Ependymoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Ependymomas may also form in the choroid plexus (tissue in the ventricles that makes cerebrospinal fluid).

(Ependymoma, NCI Dictionary)

Choroid plexus tumors may be benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer).

(Choroid plexus tumor, NCI Dictionary)

Ependymal tumors may also form in the choroid plexus (tissue in the ventricles that makes cerebrospinal fluid).

(Ependymal tumor, NCI Dictionary)

It includes the choroid plexus papilloma, atypical choroid plexus papilloma, and choroid plexus carcinoma.

(Choroid Plexus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery, which originates in either the internal carotid artery or the middle cerebral artery, that delivers blood to the choroid plexus.

(Anterior Choroidal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with the presence of choroid plexus neoplasms in the brain.

(Aicardi Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)